Don Carrigan

Maine

Reporter at WCSH-TV (Portland, ME)

Reporter at WLBZ-TV (Bangor, ME)

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Longtime sailing captain left retirement to create a new maritime museum

1 week ago | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

ROCKLAND, Maine — Give Capt. Jim Sharp a few minutes—or more—of your time, and he’ll open the world of sailing, boats and Maine maritime history. It’s a world that shaped and, at age 91, still fills his life. “I love it, I’m here 7 days a week, 91 years old, and I’m still here 7 days a week. Driving them crazy with my new ideas for things,” the longtime windjammer captain laughs.
Longtime sailing captain leaves retirement to create a new maritime museum

1 week ago | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

ROCKLAND, Maine — Give Capt. Jim Sharp a few minutes of your time, or more, and he’ll open the world of sailing, boats, and Maine maritime history. It’s a world that shaped and continues to fill his life. “I love it," the longtime windjammer captain laughed.
114 years later, Bangor remembers the fire that changed the city

2 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

BANGOR, Maine — Downtown Bangor stretches out the same way it has for a century. Main Street meets Central Street, turns into State Street, then meets Exchange and Harlow. There is a park between State and Central, and it continues between Central and Franklin Street. It’s a lovely, green, and calm spot amid circling traffic. It's been like this for 114 years, a lasting result of the Great Bangor Fire of 1911.
Donations help support workforce housing build in Boothbay

2 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

BOOTHBAY, Maine — On a bright April morning, a crane gently lifted sections of modular housing into place. In a few hours, the second of five condominium buildings was assembled. It holds four two-bedroom condos, ready to be finished and sold—to a very specific market. “People who work for the town, people who work for the school, people who work at the Coast Guard,” said Erin Cooperrider, vice president of the Boothbay Regional Development Corporation, which is leading the project.
Honor Flight Maine: First trip from Bangor departs Friday with biggest group yet

3 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

BANGOR, Maine — Virgil Pinkham served a 25-year career in the U.S. Navy before coming home to his native Boothbay Harbor. During those years, he served stints in Washington and at multiple other Navy assignments, including 18 months in Vietnam in the 1960s. He was part of the crew on a medical boat in the Mekong River Delta, where there was fierce fighting between U.S. forces and the Viet Cong.
Humpback whale becomes first new exhibit at Maine State Museum

4 weeks ago | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

AUGUSTA, Maine — “It is a big whale”, said Bernard Fishman, director of the Maine State Museum. That it is--a 45-foot, full skeleton of a female humpback whale, now mounted in what will be a featured space of the Augusta museum. Beside the adult whale skeleton is a far smaller skeleton of a humpback whale calf. Together, they will form what project leader Dan DenDanto says will be the world's first exhibit of its kind.
Maine's lumber industry grapples with cross-border subsidy challenges

1 month ago | treefrogcreative.ca | Don Carrigan |Kevin Mason |Kelly McCloskey |Robert McKellar

Maine’s lumber industry grapples with cross-border subsidy challenges By Don Carrigan News Center Maine April 10, 2025 Category: Business & Politics Maine’s lumber industry has survived the ups and downs of markets for over a century. Maine’s lumber industry has been part of a complex relationship with Canada.
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks has been crafting woodworking tools for decades

1 month ago | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

WARREN, Maine — With a light, smooth scraping sound, a razor-thin shaving of wood curls up from the steel and bronze hand plane. The wood is cherry, a hardwood that still yields easily to the sharp edge of the tool. Precisely planning an edge, or chiseling a square corner of a mortise, or cutting a fine line with a saw, are some of the simple joys of life for woodworkers. At Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, they take that experience seriously. Ask Patrick Blum, who makes the saws.
Maine town celebrates as its oldest resident turns 104 years old

1 month ago | abc10.com | Don Carrigan

KNOX COUNTY, Maine — Edgar Post isn’t used to hearing applause in his honor. After a lifetime working as a lobsterman and then a quiet retirement, Edgar isn’t what most would consider a celebrity. But in the small village of Spruce Head, he is very much a person to be celebrated. Edgar Post, who has spent all but three years of his life here, just turned 104 years old.
Coast Guard members from around the country say they feel at home in Rockland

Aug 14, 2024 | newscentermaine.com | Don Carrigan

ROCKLAND, Maine — Rockland is a city on the sea whose commercial and social life has largely centered around just that. Literally in the middle of the city's waterfront, appropriately perhaps, is the U.S. Coast Guard. Rockland has had a close relationship with the service for nearly 80 years; going back to World War II. That’s when the current base was officially established.